Well you could always try Mandrake again. 9.2 just came out and these days 
urpmi is just as good as apt-get for most things and better at a few.

Chad


> Well, after a little under 4 months my Toshiba Laptop's hard disk has
> died in a fit of squealing agony.  Luckily I managed to save my photos.
> Anyhow, when I get a new disk I'll be putting linux on it, and thought I
> might branch out to try other distros.
> Originally I was a Mandrake (8.?) user, then for the last 8 months or
> more a Gentoo user.  I love my Gentoo, but re-installing and downloading
> scares me :)
> Is there any distro out there that I can play with that has the power of
> Gentoo's "emerge" without the hassle of so many downloads & compiling.
> The only one I can think of is Debian.  Maybe I should just get the
> Gentoo 1.4 GRP?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Brad

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